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#134 Ramit Sethi on How He Will Teach You To Be Rich | Impact Theory

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

Impact Theory

Education, News, News Commentary, Philosophy, Technology, Society & Culture, Business, Self-improvement

4.75.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Are you tired of personal finance advice that makes you feel terrible for buying lattes? Well, the “no-BS money man for the new generation”, Ramit Sethi, is tired of bad personal finance advice too. Instead of giving you guilt trips about life’s daily pleasures, he tells you how to negotiate a 25k raise. On this episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, Ramit Sethi, author of “I Will Teach You to be Rich”, does just that. Find out how to negotiate big raises, control your spending, get out of debt, and form positive money habits that will make you financially free. This episode is brought to you by: Impact Theory University. Visit university.impacttheory.com today! Blinkist. Visit www.blinkist.com/IMPACT to try out the premium service completely free for 7 days! Skillshare. Start learning on Skillshare today with 2 free months at https://skl.sh/impacttheory26 SHOW NOTES: Ramit describes the connections between systemic inequality and mindset [2:39] Ramit talks about how 90% of people in debt don’t know how much they owe [4:16] Ramit describes people’s invisible beliefs about money [5:35] Tom and Ramit discuss how to get through to people about making money [8:09] Tom and Ramit discuss spending on what you really love [12:20] Ramit defines a rich life [14:54] Ramit and Tom discuss dark beliefs around money [16:35] Ramit explains how to get a 25k raise [23:15] Ramit advocates that people desperately crave the truth [30:06] Ramit illustrates how people victimize themselves [31:53] What kinds of rules should people have around money? [34:53] Ramit discusses core values and money [38:06] Ramit describes how to have deep conversations in relationships [40:41] Ramit explains what rules new couples should have around money [43:20] How people should think about saving and debt [45:58] Ramit talks about the small minority of people who are obsessed with money [48:17] Ramit shares the impact he wants to have on the world [49:39] QUOTES: “Lattes is a classic example. Everybody tells you not to spend money on lattes. That’s the worst advice ever! Buy as many lattes as you want.” [11:12] “When I ask people what’s a rich life to you, they usually say two things. Freedom, which is a very nice word, but kind of generic. And they say a number, usually a million bucks.“ [14:58] “No matter what, you will get the shit kicked out of you at some point in life. And you can take two routes. You can say, Oh that sucks I’m never gonna do that again. Or you can say, oh, that did suck, what did I learn from that? How can I improve?” [20:33] “I routinely show people how to negotiate 10, 25 thousand dollar raises.” [24:55] FOLLOW: WEBSITE: www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/2YMAtNb TWITTER: http://bit.ly/2KsVAiA FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/2Kuh3ro BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: “I Will Teach You to be Rich” https://amzn.to/2YL7qJV [1:58]

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Impact, baby.

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Hey everybody, welcome to Impact Theory.

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Today's guest is a New York Times bestselling author whose theories around personal finance

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have helped countless people achieve financial freedom as well as making him a very wealthy

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man.

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He's the founder of GrowthLab.com and I will teach you to be rich.com and he has more

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than 20,000 documented success stories so far.

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He's a Stanford grad who studied both technology and psychology and he takes a profoundly

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humanistic approach to finance.

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His views are often counterintuitive but they cut through the typically tri-confusing and

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emotionally impossible guidance that permeates the landscape of financial advice.

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His simple six-week method to gaining financial control over your life is both powerful and

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straightforward to implement.

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A voice that has withstood the test of time 10 plus years after first publishing his

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award-winning book, I will teach you to be rich.

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He's been pictured next to Warren Buffett in Forbes magazine, had a six-page feature in

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Fortune and he's been covered by such prominent institutions as CNBC, The Wall Street Journal,

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CNN, PBS, Fox Business and The New York Times.

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Over 1 million people read his material every month and his newsletter alone reaches hundreds

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